Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod.

He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.

He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.

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Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod.

He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.

He then explains what he'd do differently if he were starting today.

Join the Dev Heroes Accelerator at https://devchat.tv/hero

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Anthony Fu, full-time open source contributor and author of Vitesse, an opinionated template for using Vite. We explore some of Anthony's work in open source, and what inspired him to use Vite to rebuild his site.

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In this episode, John, Luke, and Chuck begin the discussion on Ruby 3.0's release by discussing the differences and enhancements in Ruby 2.7 over version 2.6. Luke leads the charge in providing a list of the differences and the Rogues debate the merits of the various changes in the last minor release of Ruby 2 before releasing Ruby 3.0.

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.

He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

Steve and A.J. talk with Chris Mather, the creator of the Elements framework, a new monolith-style web framework for generating web apps. They discuss the reason for adding YAF (Yet Another Framework), the pieces that are used to build the framework, and how it all works together.

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.

He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

In today's episode we pepper Stu with lots of questions about Azure. We discuss the difference between on-premise and the cloud and dig into the benefits of using Azure. There is a lot to unpack in Azure so we discuss some of the tools available, the pricing calculator and the shift in mindset it takes to move to the cloud. Stu is also involved in OpenHack which are hackathons run by Microsoft that provide real-world challenges to make you a better developer and help Microsoft learn from the developer community.

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Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.

He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.

He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.